Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1941 — Page 15

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1041

YANK UNIT AT | TRAINING PEAK

Eagle Squadron Ready to Battle Germans Soon, Tests Show.

By WILLIAM H, STONEMAN Copyright. 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc R. A. F. STATION, March 18.— (Delayed)—When the first Ameri- | can squadron of the Royal Air| Force meets the Germans there is going to be trouble and the chances are pretty good that the Germans will be at the receiving end. The Eagle Squadron, which we saw today, is one of the most care-| fully trained fighter squadrons turned out by the British since the war began. Though it has been training hard for six months and has been on the active list since early February. it is still training. Before it moves to a more active] sector 1t will have a short final training. It will also be given brand new planes. And when it swings into action, four crack combat pilots of the | R. A, F. will ride into battle with it. That will save the new. overly| anxious boys from the other side | of the Atlantic from unnecessary | accidents, if they happen to run into a group of first-class enemy pilots in their initial combat.

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The Cream of the Crop

The R. A. F. and squadron leader Weg Taylor, the American commander of the group. deserve all the credit in the world for the way they have handled the Eagle Squadmn. The original group of volunfeers has been whittled down untii only well-disciplined members remain. A few rowdy souls have been

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UVENILE BILL STIRS DISPUTE

Judges Raise Question of | Jurisdiction; Court | Fight Likely.

By HARRY MORRISON

The Court House is rapidly split[ting into two groups over the work|ability of the new Juvenile Couit | bill and a court fight is being looked upon as the only solution. Four main questions have been | raised: | 1.Can any arrests be made in |cases of youths from 16 to 18 2. Can Criminal Court take juris{diction over a youth brought into | juvenile Court on a petition, when |an affidavit of indictment is neces-

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Firemen Elect Pension Fund Trustee

While Lieut. William B. Russell and fellow firemen waited for alarms yesterday, they chose him

trustee of the Fire Pension Fund, a four-year job.

Ballots were counted at City Hall by (left to right)

(double jeopardy, if the youth is| Russell E. Campbell, Mayor Sullivan's secretary, Fire Chief Fred C, Kennedy and Fred W. Heaton, Pen-

|sent up to Criminal Court? Bradshaw Favors Act

Juvenile Court Judge Wilfred | Bradshaw believes these are apparent faults rather than real ones and that the act will work. Criminal Court officials. including Judge Dewey E. Myers, believes the measure is badly written and cannot work. Furthermore. they say they cannot be expected to do anything toward a solution. Others in the Court House, in{cluding Sheriff Al Feeney and one Superior Court Judge, feel that a {compromise should be attempted. |

manager for United Artists,

co-ed, In return he

shipped back to where they came from. Some older volunteers have

day to accept donations. been transferred to the comber or fleet air arm units.

Although each manjack in the TRAFFIC JAMS squadron is supposed to have had! 260 hours of flying before he joined: | | the squadron, the eaglets have been |

put over the hurdles like a lot of greenhorns. The result is that today |

they are completely at home in their Downtown Confusion Lasts

Hurricanes and form a well-knit, highly disciplined squadron. Their : For Hour During Rush Period.

training and early operational Automatic traffic signals in

flights have been so well managed that only three men have been killed. most congested part of downtown Indianapolis went ‘haywire” last night and motorists played guessing games at busy intersections.

Fight as a Unit When they put on a formation flight with five planes today, the pilots looked definitely “good.” They rode wingtip to wingtip as they thundered down in dives at 450! Red and green lights flashed off m. p. h. and on irregularly, confusing motorThe Eagle Squadron may produce | ists. Signals in the area bounded by aces before the war is over, but Senate Ave. and Alabama St. and fhat is not the big idea at present. Market and Meridian Sts. showed The kind of war that these boys are both red and green at the same going mto is a war of teamwork and |time, flashed on and off or went any high-spirits, who don’t realize dark. It, get themselves killed. | A City Signal Department truck, So, for six months, these Ameri. summoned to meet the emergency, cans have had it dinned into their broke down and repair of the elecheads morning, noon and night that trical system was delayed. The they are going to fight as a unit, or breakdown occurred about 6 Pp. mm. part of a greater unit. In en-|and the lights were not back to norgagements against German mass mal until after 7 P. Mm. formations of fighters, the hombers,| City Signal Superintendent John the eaglets will probably operate zs/J MecNellis said the trousle was part of a wing which may consist |caused by a defective relav in the Ol three squadrons. When the op- [master control box at Merid‘an and position 1s not as great. current tac-| Washington Sts. tics, already well advertised, call for] Residents of the North quadron charges. | ported several signals out ot order in that vicinity this morning, but | Mr. McNellis said the trouvle was! The whole squadron dives into|due to mechanical difficulties. He the German bomber formation in|said light bulbs illuminating the ‘sections” or units of two or three signals had burned out and vere be-! planes. It continues its dive downing replaced. through the Germans hoping to! Last night's breakdown was unbreak up the formation, then zooms|ysual, he said. Defects in wiring up and pounces again to pick on the usually cause traffic signal failures, strays. : {he said. At this point, there may be in ee dividual dog fights. But it is bet-| JUDGE TO JUDGE SELF ter, even then, for the planes to] ANTIOCH, Cal, March 13 (U maintain sectional formation. There |P.).—Police Judge Tom Milan demust be complete teamwork from |cides today whether he can give start to finish. and this is the hard- himself a fair trial. Police Chief est lesson that the Americans have Al Leroy yesterday cited the judge had to learn. for illegal parking.

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WASHINGTON, March 19 (U. |{hat “the law |

P.) —Officers and civilian workers in the Navy Department received new inter-office telephone directories today sprinkled with words of caution against revealing naval secrets. Each page of the directory contained one of 10 slogans: Loose words may lose ships. Beware of inquisitive friends. Do vou know who is listening? Careless talk costs lives, Walls have ears.

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Differ on Arrests

The greatest bone of contention] lis the section relating to arrests.) {It says among other things, that a |yvouth shall not be “brought in” in| the company of other criminals, but {that he may be, with the consent] {of the judge of chief probation offi- | {cer, placed in a private room in the jail. |

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{by what the act says. We have no Keep vour own counsel. 2 [the question of arrests with Judge] official letter envelopes which are |tion of entering into a jurisdictional | Would Use Criminal Court mated that the three major airplane beyond the help of the Juvenile lieve existing motor shortages and |to indicate that the youths in quesThe Aeronautical Chamber based| has removed their power to put such | The Allison division of General Juvenile Court acts according to its engines monthly by the end of this eee P-38 and the North America NA-T3, (clined to comment today on charges | author and radio commentator, will charges” that he publicly mimicked Mr. Wells subject will be, “The Mr. Hammond is an “unclassified | A q/sul at Vienna in 1933 and at Leip-| recently returned from Europe and | ©'lday. He seeks an injunction to

oo. : : a Juvenile Court interprets this as| Do not repeat rumors. 'a “detention” clause and says it has| Gossip is faster than radio. {nothing to do with arrests. Criminal Do not use telephone |Court’s answer is that it must “go! secrets, | : ; ._|Jurisdiction except if an ariest has Idle words may reveal vital in- lheen made.” formation. Both the Sheriff and Police Chief Another part of the secrecy |npichael F. Morrissey have discussed | campaign was the adoption of | Bradshaw and have agreed ‘o arrive white on the outside but brown |g. o «working policy” before the bill | on the inside. It is impossible to \goes into effect sometime in June. hold them up to a light and learn |” pe Chief said he had no inten-| their contents. dispute between the courts, but that as a law enforcement officia’, he intended to ‘co-operate with the l courts. MONTHLY FORECAST Under the new measure, it was WASHINGTON, March 19 (U.P). Judge Bradshaw s idea to serd Some —The Aeronautical Chamber of of the cases, “when®they 3 are Commerce of America today esti-|a definite menace to society and are engine producers would reach a! Court,” to Criminal Court. . 5 monthly output rate of 3500 to 3700, It is now felt that this would be high-powered motors by July. | unconstitutional because steps That production rate would re-| would necessarily have been taken provide a small surplus over the tion were already “tainted with number of engines required for a|guilt.” : monthly plane output of 1500 ex-! Criminal Court attaches said that pected by July, | a repealing clause in the new statute its estimate on a survey of the three youth in the 16-to-18-year class principal motor manufacturers— even in a correctional institution. | Pratt & Whitney, Wright Aeronaut-| The dispute simmers there. It is ical and Allison. | probable that it will be settled when Motors Corp. completed about 400!interpretation of the law. Appeals] units during February, compared will likely be taken from Criminal with 350 during January. Allison,|Qourt actions and the bill's fate! is planning for a production of 1000 then settled by a higher court. year. It now holds Army orders for | $234.000.000 worth of liquid-cooled | engines to power the Curtiss P-40,| the Bell Airacobra, the Lockheed AID FIGHTS OUSTER ) Hl ol . WASHINGTON, March 19 (U. P.).| all pursuit-interceptors. | —State Department officials deROVING REPORTER {by Ogden H. Hammond Jr., son of TALKS HERE TONIGHT a former ambassador to Spain, that they had sought to force him to Linton Wells, war correspondent, | Iesien on “false and malicious speak at the dinner of the John H. P Be . Sr at Holliday Jr. Post and auxiliary, of ‘92 ES An + tin ; . .an Of a foreign power. | the American Legion, at 6:30 State Department officials said! o'clock tonight at the Riviera Club. 3 Pp SN . " 3 ww? a » w ; Troubled World, and Those Who OF probationary _emnloyee ho has Make It Sc.” roving reporter held minor poistions at various i i Faas he is 1 since 1011. Mr. Wells has been diplomatic posts. He was vice con around vhe world several bumes andl sic, Gurnmny, until Feb, 21, 19h, ¢ HOH War fF | Mr. Hammond's accusations were Hit Avia Nor Jem ‘made in a petition filed in District! CASE Wildraes, Dos comand. of Columbia Federal Court yesterer, will be chairman of the meeting. ! ry RRR ONE {prevent altering of his status in the OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR | foreign service, FIGHTS DAM PROJECT riaN NEW BOMBER TEST WASHINGTON. March 18 (U.! BURBANK, Cal, March 19 (U.

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Parliament to Schools to Recess on Arrival Tomorrow.

CANBERRA, Australia, March 19 | P.).—Australia prepared an |

(U. enthusiastic welcome today American naval squadron

of two

heavy cruisers and five destroyers, | due at Sydney tomorrow on what is |

officially described as a training

cruise.

Announcement of the visit came

while two light cruisers and five de-|

stroyers of the United States Pacific fleet were about to conclude a visit to Auckland. N. Z., across the Tasman Sea. Parliament voted to adjourn tomorrow when it was informed that re heavy cruisers Chicago ark Portland and the destroyers Clark, Cassin, Conyngham, Downes and Reid, which make up the Fifth Destroyer Division, would arrive at Sydney, so that Cabinet ministers and members of Parliament might Join in the welcome to the American fleet. A full day's holiday was ordered for Sydney school children All members of the Government will join in the welcome. At Auckland, and due to leave today, were the light cruisers Brook-

lvn and Savannah and the destroy- |

ers Case, Shaw, Commings and

Tucker, which make up the Sixth]

Destroyer Division. Members of the Government regarded the visit of the United States warships as extraordinarily significant of developments in recent months in the Pacific, and as

evidence of United States determi- | nation to aid the Brifish Empire in |

defeating nazism.

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March 19 (U. PD) to be a law agains desecrating the hair of istomers County Detective Maines helieves 80 1a search is being made today of the statute books | When officers plaint that is withheld, was imbibing freely and performing tricks on the hair of customers, Mr, Maines was sent to investigate. He returned with all his hair cut off. f “That barber had my hair all cut gefore I could raise a finger,” Mr. Maines fumed in reporting he had climbed: into the barber's chair to see what would happen. Thus far, District Attorney Burton A. Laub’s search of the law books has failed to find any measure to cover the case, and he has reported the barber to licensing authorities. One woman reported that the barber used the clippers through the middle of her head, from front to back

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CALL IT WAR IF YOU LIKE-NAZIS

Berlin Spokesman Asserts | Americans Who Think So Won't Be Hindered.

BERLIN, March 19 (U. P.).—An authorized German source said today that if “some Americans to think they are at war with us— then we certainly not them.” The Nazi informant added

emphasis, however, that: | “We will let no one dictate to us as to whether we are actually at

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April Selective Service call for 6900

Hoosier men will be 557, Lieut. Col Robinson Hitchcock, State Selective Service director, announced today. Because about one of every 10 registrants is found to be Class 1-A material, the 57 local boards Marion County will be forced to classify about 5000 registrants to

(fill the call.

The tion to statements from the United States and Britain that America is now “actively in the war” as a result of passage of the Lend-Lease Bill and whether, in view of developments, Japan's obligations to Germany under the tri-partite alliance would now come into effect. “Whether this assistance from the United States constitutes or does not constitute an act of war de-

| pends entirely on the value we give

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The sixth call is the largest is-| sued thus far in the Selective Serv- | ice program, and will take as many

men in one month as have gone into the Army since day last October, Meanwhile, the delivery of 36 men at Ft. Harrison induction station today will close the fourth call.

registration |

The fifth call, which will take an!

additional 745 Hoosiers, will begin Friday. Inductions under the April

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through April 19.

FIND BABE AND $6000

ZARAGOZA, Spain, March 19 (U. P.).—Police found a baby boy abandoned in the Plaza Jose Antonio In the infant’s undergarments were 60,000 pesetas (about $6000).

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ENTIRE CLASS WEARS TIES LIKE TEACHER'S

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (U. P.)) .—It may have been purely coincidental. but John B. Waite, professor of criminal law at the University of Michigan, was left almost speechless when he prepared to lecture to a class of 130 freshman law students. Waite, noted for his endless variety of bow. ties and dry professional humor, was confronted with approximately 100 bow ties when he raised his head to start his lecture.

SAILS FOR HOME CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, March

{19 (U. P.).— Mrs. Eleanor C. Anderson sailed for New York last night

aboard the Grace liner Santa Clara with the body ¢f her Sherwood Anderson, the writer, who died here March 8

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DEFENSE TRADE

Economists Doubt U. S. Would Have to Take Over as in 1917-18.

WASHINGTON, March 19 (U. P) —Agriculture Department econo-

mists reported today in a special sur- |

vey that American transportation

facilities are geared to meet the defense emergency without a breakdown such as snarled traffic during World War days. Railroad, truck and | transportation facilities, they said, are adequate to meet both civil and military requirements during 1940. The economists’ report, prepared by

|rad, said that carriers, through their car service division, are prepared to route traffic efficiently without Federal supervision in contrast to 1917 and 1918 when it was necessary for the Government to take them over,

Two Steps Are Urged

Mr. Malott and Mr. Conrad rec-

ommended two steps to prevent a|

shortage of cars if demand increases above present expectations: Heavier loading of cars and elimination of circuitous routing of both loaded and empty cars “If this voluntary co-operation should fail,” they added. “the Interstate Commerce Commission is em{powered to step in and perform the fsame functions, with compulsion, through its bureau of service.” The report coincided with these defense developments 1. Officials predicted that a | “streamlined” plan whereby the Army and Navy will give preference rating to all prime and subcontractors for 220 essential war materials would accelerate this country's refarmament drive and speed up deliv|ery of all-out aid to Britain, | ! ‘Training Within Industry’ A joint committee,

2 labor-management representing the nation's metal trades. recommended an eight-point program to stimulate President Roosevelt's “training-{within-industry” plan to provide additional workers for defense industries. Priorities previously have been administered solely by the Office of Production Management which will continue to issue mandatory preference rating on all items not included in the list of essential materials The training - within - industry” proposal climaxed a two-day conference called by defense chiefs William S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman in an effort to recreate the inplant training program abandoned in the 1930s.

MENUHIN'S SISTER DIVORCES ATTORNEY

SAN JOSE, Cal, March 19 (U P.).—Yalta Menuhin Stix, 19, youngest sister of Yehudi Menuhin, |the violinist, yesterday morning re-

{ceived a final divorce. decree from

William Stix, young Washington at|torney. She won an interlocutory decree 13 months ago, charging her husband frequent'v left her alone at night. They separated after six months of marriage.

Settlement

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31 STRIKES MAR DEFENSE WORK

Expected Dispute at Aviation Test Center.

Ry UNITED PRESS Labor disputes at 31 industrial plants and Government projects | kept approximately 40,000 workmen [from jobs vital to national defense (today. | Office of Production Management spokesmen said negotiations for |settlement of a strike of 400 A. FP, or L. construction workers at Wright |Field, O., have been “stepped up” and early resumption of work at the Army’s experimental plant was ex= pected. The Wright Field strike has concerned labor and defense officials since March 4. The War Depart= ment considered a plan to replace striking workers with civil service employees. Await A. F. of L. Statement

A. F. of L. headquarters at Wash ington was expected by union offi cials to make a statement “soon” on settlement of the dispute that has tied up the $1,500,000 expansion project. The A. F. of L. workers struck in protest against employ= ment of five C. I. O. electricians. A strike of 125 A. F. of L. ship carpenters at Galveston, Tex. to=day made 2000 others idle when Todd -Galveston Dry Docks. Inc. re~ fused union demands to dismiss a repair shop foreman. Repairs on nine ships. two British, were stopped, Five hundred members of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (C. I. O.) resumed a strike at the Malleable Iron Co. plant at Wilmingten, Del, when workers refused (to ratify an agreement between the company and union involving wages,

Seek to Mediate Rail Dispute | Eleven strikers agreed to load 76 jtons of finished aluminum products [needed for naval construction at the Aluminum Co. of America plant, | Edgewater, N. J. The C. I. O. mem= bers said they would give their [wages for the job to charity

| National mediation board officials met with representatives of 14 A, |F. of L. railway unions today in an [effort to settle a dispute over wages and paid vacations. A threatened strike of A. F, L, |electrical workers that would shut {off all power in the St. Louis metro« [politan area was postponed pending conferences with Federal concilie ators and OPM officials. Workers at three Union Electric Co. plants voted to strike to protest discharge of 18 men at the firm's Venice, Ill. plant. | At New York, the United Mina | Workers agreed upon a plan which would permit miners outside the cight-state Appalachian area to continue work if the union fails to (reach an agreement with operators jon a contract to replace an existing jagreement which ends April 1. The miners are demanding $1 a day wage increases. | United Automobile Workers were jon strike at the Oakland, Cal., Fish« er Body and Chevrolet Motor Co, passenger car assembly plants,

Harvester Announces

Richmond Reopening

| RICHMOND, Ind., March 19 (U, P.) —Plant Superintendent C. C. | Calkins said today the Richmond {works. of International Harvester |Co. will be opened “within a few days.” | Members of the C. I. O.-Farm |Equipment Workers” Organizing (Committee conferred yesterday on |settlement proposals and Clifford Kerr, local union president, an= nounced they had been rejected. Mr. Calkins charged that only about 250 of the approximately 1303 [employees, including some who wera (not employees of Harvester, attended the union meeting. Mr. Kerr countered that the full 1300 voted unanimous rejection. Mr, Calkins said that as soon as “adequate arrangements can be ‘made to protect emplovees return ing to work against violence, the plant will be reopened.” He said a majority of workers petitioned to reopen the plant, closed Feb. 18.

A. F. L. Calls Parley

In Valparaiso Strike

VALPARAISO, Ind., March 19 (U. P).—A. F. L. employees and officials of the Indiana Steel Prods ucts Co. will confer today on a strike called at the plant Sundav night by C. I. O. employees. Twa hundred workers have been idle. An A. F. L. committee called the conference, claiming the C. I. O, was conducting a strike in violation lof a National Labor Relations ( Board order that it had no bargain« [ing rights until expiration of an | A. F. L. contract with the company next November.

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P.).—Gov. Leon C. Phillips of Okla- P.).—The Vega Airplane Co. dis-| homa today carried to the Supreme closed today that test flights will be| Court his legal fight to block con- conducted sometime in June on a] struction of the $54,000,000 Denison new and improved bombing plane power-flood control project on the |to supersede the Lockheed Hudson Red River between Oklahoma and reconnaissance bomber now being Texas. {used by the R. A. F. coastal comThe high court was asked to re- mand. Courtland S. Gross. presiview a three-judge district court dent, said that orders for $72,792.decision on Feb. 8 which denied a 703 of the new twin-engined bomb- | request for an injunction barring ers have been received from the | further work on the project. | British Purchasing Commission.

Food Becomes Weapon

WASHINGTON, March 19 (U. P.).—-The World War slogan—*“food will win the war’—was revived today with Administration plans to use American farm surpluses to fill Britain's larder and to implement diplo- | matic pressure on countries leaning toward the AXis. . | President Roosevelt disclosed yesterday that he has assigned Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard and Surgeon General Thomas Parran, just returned from London. | 10 set up a program of food-aid | tory to Russia a year ago and now, for Britain. lis in serious need of assistance. | The Agriculture Tepartment re- | Secretary of Sore. Jesse yood vealed that much of British ood Oe roorl- Trt. Bort | needs be met from already funds have been loaned to Finland large surpluses and that only frac-|for food purchases. The money will tional changes will be made from pe made available soon. | 1940 plantings of major crops.| Unoccupied France is almost cerThese, it was said, will provide| tain to receive a “test” shipment ample aid for Britain without re- of two boatloads of foods—chiefly ducing surpluses below a “safe mai- cercals—as soon as arrangements gin of reserve.” can be made with the American Mr. Roosevelt yesterday men- Red Cross for supervised distribu- | tioned the possibility of food for tion. | Spain, obviously in that connection.| Food may also be used in wn] But one of the first nations tojattempt to discourage Juguslavial benefit from America’s granary is and Turkey from signing up with] Finland, which lost valuable terri-ithe Axis. _ . : |

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